Modeling and Cooperative Simulation of Systems with Interdependent Discrete and Continuous Elements

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising modeling, in a second modeling environment, a continuous system element; modeling, in a first modeling environment, a discrete system element and a data flow between the discrete system element and the continuous system element; exporting, from the first modeling environment to the second modeling environment, information including software instructions usable by the second modeling environment to simulate the discrete system element; and second simulating, by the second modeling environment and using the software instructions, the discrete system element.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: first simulating, by the first modeling environment, the discrete system element and the data flow between the discrete system element and the continuous system element.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the first and second simulating are performed at least partially concurrently.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the exported information includes instrumentation configured to enable communication between the first modeling environment and the second modeling environment during the first and second simulating.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the communication is performed via a common TCP/IP socket used by both the first and the second modeling environments, respectively, during the first and second simulating.

6. The method of claim 2 , wherein an output of the continuous system element is used as an input for the discrete system element.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second modeling environment is configured to model the data flow between the discrete system element and the continuous system element.